Below are some of the very best articles
on what causes diabetes and how to
eliminate diabetes that I have found anywhere. Diabetes is not a mystery.
Treating
it with insulin is a death sentence. Spend some time with this page and heed the
advice below to gain a better understanding of how you can beat this
killer.

The United States has seen a rapid rise in pre-diabetes and type 2
diabetes over the last decade. Nearly 80 million people—about one in
four—now has diabetes
or pre-diabetes.

Diabetes among children and teens is also growing at a rapid rate. The
most recent data1,2
reveals that, between 2001 and 2009, type 2 diabetes among children aged
10-19 rose by 30 percent.

Overwhelmingly, the evidence points to a faulty diet—indeed the entire
culture of inappropriate, health-harming food—which is the topic of the
fast-paced documentary, Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat,3
produced by Lathe Poland and Eric Carlsen.

Poland was himself diagnosed with diabetes in 2010, which led to the
creation of this revealing film. In a press release, Poland notes:

"I wasn't overweight... To be honest, I was completely blown
away when my doctor gave me the diagnosis. Why would a seemingly healthy
30 something man like myself get a disease like this?

My misconception like most people was that there were two scenarios
where you get diabetes…Either it's hereditary and it's not your fault,
or you eat junk food like it's going out of style and end up
diabetic."

His doctor wanted him to take three different medications, and what
alarmed Poland was what he calls "the rubber stamp approach." So
he decided to look deeper, to find out what really causes diabetes, and
whether the drug approach was really the only remedy.

Processed Carbs Fuel the Diabetes Epidemic

For the last 50 years, Americans have been told to eat a high complex
carbohydrate, low saturated fat diet. Even diabetics have been told to eat
50-60 percent of their daily calories in the form of processed carbs.

As the filmmakers note, "refined and processed foods, especially
processed carbohydrates have become a staple of our culture, and we are
reaping the consequences." Conventional wisdom states that whole grains
are part of a heart-healthy diet, and cereal commercials abound making that
same claim...

But make no mistake about it. This nutritional advice is exactly why
diabetes rates are shooting skyward. (Even athletes would be well advised to
reconsider carb-loading,
as a high fat diet tends to improve performance to a greater
degree. This too is briefly discussed in the film.)

Conventional advice also states that diabetics can safely use table
sugar, as long as you readjust your medications to compensate appropriately
(i.e. take more drugs to increase your fat cell storage capacity). Using
toxic artificial sweeteners in lieu of sugar also gets the green light.

The sad truth is that these recommendations are not based on nutritional
science. They're based on industry lobbying – just like the USDA's Food
Pyramid, which is fraught with massive industry
conflicts of interest.

As discussed in the film, there was NO science to back up these
nutritional recommendations. In essence, it was an experiment, and we are
now able to say the experiment was a horrible abject failure that has
resulted in needless pain and suffering and the premature deaths of tens of
millions.

We simply cannot follow the conventional food pyramid (or the updated
version called MyPlate),
and maintain optimal health. Why? Because grains turn into sugar in your
body, which leads to insulin resistance and promotes chronic inflammation in
your body—all of which is explained in the featured film.

The film also discusses the pernicious influence and sheer power of the
processed food industry, and how they shape our food culture—and much of
the "conventional wisdom" about food—through junk
food advertising.

Conventional Medicine Has it All Wrong...

Conventional medicine has type 2 diabetes pegged as a problem rooted in
"dysregulation of blood sugar control," which is typically
explained as "an inability of your body to produce enough
insulin."

With that view, it seems reasonable to conclude that in order to control
diabetes, you need a prescription for insulin, or drugs that raise insulin
to counteract the elevated blood sugar.

In reality, however, the underlying problem is improper insulin and
leptin signaling. In type 2 diabetes, your pancreas is still producing
some insulin—in fact, usually too much insulin is being produced on a chronic
basis—but your pancreas is unable to recognize the insulin and use it
properly.

This is an advanced stage of insulin resistance,4
which is typically caused by a diet that is too high in sugars and
sugar-forming foods such as grains. Type 2 diabetes also involves
malfunction of leptin
signaling, which is caused by chronically elevated insulin and leptin
levels—again due to a diet that is too high in sugar.

This is why drug treatment isn't getting us anywhere. Treating type 2
diabetes with insulin is actually one of the worst things you can do, as it
will actually worsen your insulin and leptin resistance over time. You do not
need more insulin. You need to restore the sensitivity of your insulin and
leptin receptors, and the way to do this is by keeping your insulin and
leptin levels low.

As Dr. Ron Rosedale wrote in 2005, doctors
cause diabetics to D.I.E from their flawed prescriptions, which stem
from a basic lack of insight into this root cause of diabetes. D.I.E., here,
is a clever acronym for "Doctor Induced Exacerbation," which does
indeed include early death.

It's important to understand what really happens when you simply add
insulin without addressing the underlying insulin/leptin resistance. When
your blood sugar becomes elevated, insulin is released to direct the extra
energy (sugar) into storage. A small amount is stored as a starch called
glycogen, but the majority is stored as fat.

Insulin's primary role is not to lower your blood sugar, but rather to
store this extra energy as fat for future needs when food may not be
available. The fact that insulin lowers your blood sugar is merely a
"side effect" of this energy storage process. So taking more
insulin just makes you fatter!

As Dr Rosedale has previously stated; "Type 2 diabetes is brought on
by constantly having too much insulin and leptin circulating secondary to
the same diet that has been recommended to treat diabetes and heart disease,
a high carbohydrate, low-fat diet. Then giving these diabetics more insulin
is adding gasoline to the fire. Doctors couldn't be doing more harm if they
tried."

Type 2 Diabetes Is Preventable and Treatable Without Drugs

Since type 2 diabetes involves loss of insulin and leptin sensitivity,
it's easily preventable and nearly 100 percent reversible without drugs. One
of the primary driving forces behind type 2 diabetes is eating excessive
amounts of grains, refined sugar, and processed fructose in particular—the
latter of which has adverse effects on all of metabolic hormones, including
insulin and leptin.

According to statistics in the film, after World War II, Americans
consumed an estimated 16-24 grams of fructose per day. By the mid-70s, that
average had risen to 37 grams per day, and 20 years later, Americans were
averaging nearly 55 grams of fructose per day. Other statistics
found in Dr. Richard Johnson's book, The Sugar Fix,5
suggest about 50 percent of Americans consume as much as half a pound, more
than 225 grams, per day!

There is really no question in my mind that regularly consuming more than 25
grams of fructose per day will dramatically increase your risk of insulin/leptin
resistance, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and chronic diseases such as type 2
diabetes. It's important to realize that even though fructose is relatively
"low glycemic" on the front end, it actually reduces the
receptor's affinity for insulin, leading to chronic insulin resistance and
elevated blood sugar on the back end.

So, while you may not notice a steep increase in blood sugar immediately
following fructose consumption, it is likely changing your entire endocrine
system's ability to function properly behind the scenes. A quick note on
testing: Be sure to monitor your fasting insulin level in addition to
monitoring your fasting blood sugar. You'll want your fasting insulin level
to be between 2 and 4. The higher your level, the greater your insulin
resistance and the more aggressive you need to be in your treatment plan,
especially when it comes to altering your diet.

Foundational Lifestyle Modifications to Prevent and Reverse Diabetes

So how do you reverse diabetes? The following nutrition and lifestyle
modifications are foundational for any diabetes prevention and treatment
plan.

Swap out processed foods, all forms of sugar—particularly
fructose—as well as all grains, for REAL FOOD (whole, fresh food).
A primary reason for the failure of conventional diabetes treatment has
to do with seriously flawed dietary recommendations. Fructose, grains,
and other sugar forming starchy carbohydrates are largely responsible
for your body's adverse insulin reactions, and all sugars and
grains—even "healthy" grains such as whole, organic
ones—need to be drastically reduced.

If you're insulin/leptin resistant, have diabetes, high blood pressure,
heart disease, or are overweight, you'd be wise to limit your total
fructose intake to 15 grams per day until your insulin/leptin resistance
has resolved. This includes the majority of Americans. For all others, I
recommend limiting your daily fructose consumption to 25 grams or less, to
maintain optimal health.

The easiest way to accomplish this is by swapping processed foods for
whole, ideally organic foods. This means cooking from scratch with fresh
ingredients. Processed foods are the main source of all the
primary culprits, including high fructose corn syrup and other sugars,
processed grains, trans
fats, artificial sweeteners, and other synthetic additives that may
aggravate metabolic dysfunction.

Besides fructose, trans fat (NOT saturated fat) increases your risk for
diabetes6
by interfering with your insulin receptors. Healthy saturated fats do not
do this. Since you're cutting out a lot of energy (carbs) from your diet
when you reduce sugars and grains, you need to replace them with
something. The ideal replacement is a combination of:

Low-to-moderate amount of high quality protein.
Substantial amounts of protein can be found in meat, fish, eggs, dairy
products, legumes, and nuts. When selecting animal-based protein, be
sure to opt for organically raised, grass-fed or pastured meats, eggs,
and dairy, to avoid potential health complications caused by
genetically engineered animal feed and pesticides.

Most Americans eat far too much protein, so be mindful of the amount!
I believe it is the rare person who really needs more than one-half gram
of protein per pound of lean body mass. Those that are aggressively
exercising or competing and pregnant women should have about 25 percent
more, but most people rarely need more than 40-70 grams of protein a
day.

To determine your lean body mass, find out your percent body fat and
subtract from 100. This means that if you have 20 percent body fat, you
have 80 percent lean body mass. Just multiply that by your current
weight to get your lean body mass in pounds or kilos. To determine
whether you're getting too much protein, simply calculate your lean body
mass as described above, then write down everything you're eating for a
few days, and calculate the amount of daily protein from all sources.

Again, you're aiming for one-half gram of protein per pound of lean
body mass, which would place most people in the range of 40 to 70 grams
of protein per day. If you're currently averaging a lot more than
that, adjust downward accordingly. You could use the chart below or
simply Google the food you want to know and you will quickly find the
grams of protein in the food.

Red meat, pork, poultry and seafood average 6-9 grams of
protein per ounce.

An ideal amount for most people would be a 3 ounce serving of
meat or seafood (not 9 or 12 ounce steaks!), which will provide
about 18-27 grams of protein

Eggs contain about 6-8 grams of protein per egg. So an omelet
made from two eggs would give you about 12-16 grams of protein.

If you add cheese, you need to calculate that protein in as well
(check the label of your cheese)

Seeds and nuts contain on average 4-8 grams of protein per
quarter cup

Cooked beans average about 7-8 grams per half cup

Cooked grains average 5-7 grams per cup

Most vegetables contain about 1-2 grams of protein per ounce

As much high quality healthy fat as you want
(saturated7
and monounsaturated). For optimal health, most people need upwards of 50-85
percent of their daily calories in the form of healthy fats. Good
sources include coconut and coconut oil, avocados, butter, nuts, and
animal fats. (Remember, fat is high in calories while being small in
terms of volume. So when you look at your plate, the largest portion
would be vegetables.)

As many non-starchy vegetables as you want

Exercise regularly and intensely. Studies have shown
that exercise, even without weight loss, increases insulin sensitivity.8High
intensity interval training (HIIT), which is a central component of
my Peak
Fitness program, has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity by as
much as 24 percent in just four weeks.

Improve your omega-3
to omega-6 ratio. Today's Western diet has far too many
processed and damaged omega-6 fats, and has far too little omega-3 fats.9
The main sources of omega-6 fats are corn, soy, canola, safflower,
peanut, and sunflower oil (the first two of which are typically
genetically engineered as well, which further complicates matters). Our
bodies evolved for an optimal 1:1 ratio of omega-6 to omega-3.
However, our ratio has deteriorated to between 20:1 and 50:1 in favor of
omega-6. This lopsided ratio has seriously adverse health consequences.

To remedy this, reduce your consumption of vegetable oils (this means
not cooking with them, and avoiding processed foods), and increase your
intake of animal-based omega-3, such as krill oil. Vegetable-based omega-3
is also found in flaxseed oil and walnut oil, and it's good to include
these in your diet as well. Just know they cannot take the place of animal-based
omega-3s.

Maintain optimal vitamin D levels year-round. Evidence
strongly supports the notion that vitamin D is highly beneficial not
only for type 1 diabetes as mentioned before, but also in type 2
diabetes. The ideal way to optimize your vitamin D level is by
getting regular sun exposure, or by using a tanning bed. As a last
resort, consider oral supplementation with regular
vitamin D monitoring, to confirm that you are taking enough vitamin
D to get your blood levels into the therapeutic range of 50-70 ng/ml.
Also please note that if you take supplemental vitamin
D, you create an increased demand for vitamin
K2 and magnesium.

Get enough high-quality sleep every night, usually 8 hours. Insufficient
sleep appears to raise stress and blood sugar, encouraging insulin and
leptin resistance and weight gain. In one 10-year long study10
of 70,000 diabetes-free women, researchers found that women who slept
less than five hours or more than nine hours each night were 34 percent
more likely to develop diabetes symptoms than women who slept seven to
eight hours each night. If you are having problems with your sleep, try
the suggestions in my article 33
Secrets to a Good Night's Sleep.

Maintain a healthy body weight. If you incorporate
the diet and lifestyle changes suggested above you will greatly improve
your insulin and leptin sensitivity, and a healthy body weight will
follow in time. Determining your ideal body weight depends on a variety
of factors, including frame size, age, general activity level, and
genetics. As a general guideline, you might find a hip-to-waist
size index chart helpful. This is far better than BMI for evaluating
whether or not you may have a weight problem, as BMI fails to factor in
both how muscular you are, and your intra-abdominal fat mass (the
dangerous visceral fat that accumulates around your inner organs), which
is a potent indicator of leptin sensitivity and associated health
problems.

Incorporate intermittent fasting. If you have
carefully followed the diet and exercise guidelines and still aren't
making sufficient progress with your weight or overall health, I
strongly recommend incorporating intermittent
fasting. This effectively mimics the eating habits of our ancestors,
who would cycle through periods of feast and famine. Modern research
shows this cycling produces a number of biochemical benefits, including
improved insulin/leptin sensitivity, lowered triglycerides and other
biomarkers for health, and weight loss.

Intermittent fasting is by far the most effective way I know of to shed
unwanted fat and eliminate your sugar cravings. Keep up your intermittent
fasting schedule until your insulin/leptin resistance improves (or your
weight, blood pressure, cholesterol ratios, or diabetes normalizes). After
that, you only need to do it "as needed" to maintain your
healthy state.

Optimize your gut health. Your gut is a living
ecosystem, full of both good bacteria and bad. Multiple studies have
shown that obese people have different intestinal bacteria than lean
people. Recent research also suggests your microbiome
can influence your risk of diabetes. As a general rule, the more
good bacteria you have, the stronger your immune system will be and the
better your body will function overall. Fortunately, optimizing your gut
flora is relatively easy. You can reseed your body with good bacteria by
regularly eating fermented foods (like fermented vegetables, especially
fermented with starter culture that has strains that produce vitamin K2,
natto, raw organic cheese, and miso) or by taking a high-quality
probiotic supplement.

This is a previous article by DR Mercola and includes some things
the above one doesn't

Diabetes by Dr Mercola - cause and cures
Much of what you have probably heard about diabetes from your health care
provider may be incorrect. There is an enormous
amount of misinformation circulating from seemingly knowledgeable
sources about this epidemic disease.

The vast majority of diabetics are clueless
about how to reverse it, and many don’t even realize that they can. They
believe their fate has been sealed and all they can do now is “control”
it. More than 50 percent of type 2 diabetics are also not even aware they
have diabetes.

Diabetes rates for both adults and children
are climbing out of control and one in four Americans either have diabetes
or pre-diabetes. Unfortunately, by following conventional medical advise,
you could be putting yourself on the path toward life-threatening health
problems—and even premature death.

We are in the Midst of a Diabetes Epidemic

The
latest statistics indicate the U.S. now has up to 24 million people with
diagnosed diabetes, which is 8 percent of our total population. However, the
picture is even grimmer when it comes to the prevalence of pre-diabetes
(impaired fasting glucose).

Almost 26 percent of U.S. adults over the age
of 20 and more than 35 percent of seniors (age 60 and older) are
pre-diabetics. In total, that’s 57 million Americans walking around with
pre-diabetes, in addition to the 24 million who have already crossed the
line.

That means more than one in four Americans
has either pre-diabetes or the full-blown disease!

Not only is type 2 diabetes completely
preventable, it is usually curable if you are willing to make some simple,
inexpensive lifestyle adjustments that will restore your insulin and leptin
sensitivity.

Diabetes, Type 1 and Type 2: What’s the Difference?

Diabetes (also known as diabetes mellitus) is
a chronic condition traditionally marked by high levels of glucose in your
blood (high blood sugar).

Type 1 is called insulin-dependent diabetes
(also known as juvenile onset diabetes), and Type 2 is called
non-insulin-dependent diabetes (or adult onset diabetes).

Type 1: “Insulin Dependent” Diabetes

In Type 1 diabetes, your body’s own immune
system destroys the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas, resulting in a complete
deficiencyof the hormone insulin. This deficiency of insulin
is why Type 1 is called “insulin-dependent”—because more often than
not, Type 1 Diabetics must give themselves supplemental insulin.

Type 1 is relatively uncommon, affecting only
about 1 in 250 Americans. It usually occurs in people before the age of 20.
There is no known cure.

However, recent research has shown that our
preoccupation with sun avoidance may play a major role in the development of
type 1 diabetes. The further you move away from the equator, the greater
your risk for this disease.

Diabetes, like all chronic disease, results
from cellular miscommunication.

Leptin: Is It the Missing Link Between Obesity and Diabetes?

Leptin is a hormone produced in your fat
cells.

One of leptin's
primary roles is regulating your appetite and body weight. It tells your
brain when to eat, how much to eat, and most importantly, when to stop
eating. And leptin tells your brain what to do with the energy it has.
Leptin is largely responsible for the accuracy of insulin signaling and
whether or not you become insulin resistant.

The only known way to reestablish proper
leptin (and insulin) signaling is through proper diet.

When your blood sugar becomes elevated,
insulin is released to direct the extra energy into storage. A small amount
is stored as a starch called glycogen, but the majority is stored as your
main energy supply—fat.

Therefore, insulin's major role is not to
lower your blood sugar, but rather to store the extra energy for future
times of need. Insulin’s effect of lowering your blood sugar is merely a
“side effect” of this energy storage process.

This is why diabetes treatments concentrating
merely on lowering blood sugar can actually worsen, rather than remedy the
actual problem of metabolic miscommunication.

Taking insulin is one of the WORST things you
can do for type 2 diabetes, since it will actually worsen your insulin and
leptin resistance over time.

Fructose—One of the Major Culprits in Obesity and Diabetes

The presence of massive amounts of fructose
in today’s Western diet is a driving force behind our diabetes epidemic.

Regular table sugar is 50 percent fructose
and 50 percent glucose, and the
two are metabolized very differently. Nearly every cell in your body was
designed to use glucose for energy—especially your brain cells—but
fructose breaks down into a variety of toxins that can have devastating
effects on your health.

Fructose has the following adverse metabolic
effects:

Fructose does not stimulate a rise in
leptin, so your satiety signals are suppressed.

Fructose raises your insulin and your
triglycerides, which effectively reduces the amount of leptin crossing
your blood-brain barrier. This interferes with the communication between
leptin and your hypothalamus. Your brain senses starvation and prompts
you to eat more.

Fructose does not suppress ghrelin
like glucose does. Ghrelin is the “hunger hormone,” making you want
more food.

All of this also sets the stage for
overindulgence and hence overweight, placing you on the path toward
diabetes.

However, it would be wise for most people to
limit fructose to 15 grams or less as it is virtually guaranteed you will be
getting “hidden” sources of fructose from just about any processed food
you eat.

This includes fruits, which also need to be
carefully measured to make certain that you’re not inadvertently going
over the fructose limit. For a helpful chart listing the fructose content of
several common fruits, please see this previous
article.

Diabetes Drugs Miss the Mark, and are Dangerous

Regardless of what you may have heard, you
cannot successfully treat the underlying cause of diabetes with drugs.

For example, consider Avandia.

Avandia works by making diabetes patients
more sensitive to their own insulin, helping to control blood sugar levels.
In fact, most conventional treatments for type 2 diabetes utilize drugs that
either raise insulin or lower blood sugar. Avandia, for example, reduces
your blood sugar by increasing the sensitivity of your liver, fat and muscle
cells to insulin.

The problem is, diabetes is not a blood sugar
disease, as I have already explained. So, drugs that focus on the
symptom of elevated blood sugar, rather than addressing the underlying
cause, are doomed to fail in most cases.

Not only that, but drugs like Avandia have
dangerous side effects, including causing extensive
heart problems that have killed literally thousands of people. In fact,
Avandia has been linked to a 43
percent increased risk of heart attack and a 64 percent higher risk of
cardiovascular death compared to patients treated with other methods!

The good news?

Nearly 100 percent of type 2 diabetics
can be successfully cured without medications.

Preventing or Reversing Diabetes in Six Simple Steps

Here are my top six actions to take for
increasing your insulin and leptin sensitivity, thus reducing your chances
for developing diabetes—or reversing it if you already have the disease:

Exercise

Exercise is an absolutely essential
factor, and without it, you’re unlikely to get this devastating
disease under control. It is one of the fastest and most powerful ways
to lower your insulin and leptin resistance.

You will want to eliminate ALL sugars and
grains—even “healthful” grains such as whole, organic or sprouted
ones. This means avoiding all breads, pasta, cereals, rice, potatoes,
and corn (which is in fact a grain).

You might even need to avoid fruits until
your blood sugar is under control.

Eat Right for Your Nutritional Type

Exercising and avoiding grains and sugars
might not be enough unless you balance your protein, carbohydrate and
fat ratios for your specific genetic biochemistry. The first step is
finding out your nutritional
type, which then gives you information about your optimal
protein/carbohydrate/fat ratio. I now offer the full
nutritional typing program for FREE, so you can get started today!

Monitor Your Fasting Insulin Level

This is every bit as important as your
fasting blood sugar. You’ll want your fasting insulin level to be
between 2 and 4. The higher your level, the worse your insulin
sensitivity is.

Optimize Your Vitamin D

Interestingly, optimizing your vitamin D
levels not only treats type 2 diabetes but as already mentioned, can
virtually eliminate
your children's risk for type 1 diabetes if you are pregnant. It’s
also vital for infants to receive the appropriate amounts of vitamin D
in their early years for the same reason.

Ideally, you’ll want to do this by
exposing a large amount of your skin to appropriate
amounts of sunshine (or a safe
tanning bed) on a regular basis, year-round. Your body can safely
create up to 20,000 units of vitamin D a day by direct UV exposure. If
you are not getting regular sun exposure on large amounts of your skin
you may need anywhere from 5 to 20,000 units of oral vitamin D3 per day.

However, if neither of these options is
available, you may want to use an oral vitamin D3 supplement. But
remember, if you choose to take an oral supplement, it’s essential
that you get your level
tested regularly by a proficient lab to make sure it’s in the
therapeutic range, which is 60 to 80 ng/ml.

If you are an American diabetic, your physician will never tell you that
most cases of diabetes are curable. In fact, if you even mention the
"cure" word around him, he will likely become upset and
irrational. His medical school training only allows him to respond to the
word "treatment". For him, the "cure" word does not
exist. Diabetes, in its modern epidemic form, is a curable disease and has
been for at least 40 years. In 2001, the most recent year for which US
figures are posted, 934,550 Americans died from out-of-control symptoms of
this disease.

Your physician will also never tell you that, at one time, strokes, both
ischaemic and haemorrhagic, heart failure due to neuropathy as well as
both ischaemic and haemorrhagic coronary events, obesity, atherosclerosis,
elevated blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, elevated triglycerides,
impotence, retinopathy, renal failure, liver failure, polycystic ovary
syndrome, elevated blood sugar, systemic candida, impaired carbohydrate
metabolism, poor wound healing, impaired fat metabolism, peripheral
neuropathy as well as many more of today's disgraceful epidemic disorders
were once well understood often to be but symptoms of diabetes.

If you contract diabetes and depend upon orthodox medical treatment,
sooner or later you will experience one or more of its symptoms as the
disease rapidly worsens. It is now common practice to refer to these
symptoms as if they were separable, independent diseases with separate,
unrelated treatments provided by competing medical specialists.

It is true that many of these symptoms can and sometimes do result from
other causes; however, it is also true that this fact has been used to
disguise the causative role of diabetes and to justify expensive,
ineffective treatments for these symptoms.

Epidemic Type II diabetes is curable. By the time you get to the end of
this article, you are going to know that. You're going to know why it
isn't routinely being cured. And, you're going to know how to cure it. You
are also probably going to be angry at what a handful of greedy people
have surreptitiously done to the entire orthodox medical community and to
its trusting patients.

The Diabetes Industry

Today's diabetes industry is a massive community that has grown step by
step from its dubious origins in the early 20th century. In the last 80
years it has become enormously successful at shutting out competitive
voices that attempt to point out the fraud involved in modern diabetes
treatment. It has matured into a religion. And, like all religions, it
depends heavily upon the faith of the believer. So successful has it
become that it verges on blasphemy to suggest that, in most cases, the
kindly high priest with the stethoscope draped prominently around his neck
is a charlatan and a fraud. In the large majority of cases, he has never
cured a single case of diabetes in his entire medical career.

The financial and political influence of this medical community has almost
totally subverted the original intent of our regulatory agencies. They
routinely approve death-dealing, ineffective drugs with insufficient
testing. Former commissioner of the FDA, Dr Herbert Ley, in testimony
before a US Senate hearing, commented: "People think the FDA is
protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA is doing and what the public
thinks it's doing are as different as night and day."

The financial and political influence of this medical community dominates
our entire medical insurance industry. Although this is beginning to
change, in America it is still difficult to find employer group medical
insurance to cover effective alternative medical treatments. Orthodox
coverage is standard in all states. Alternative medicine is not. For
example, there are only 1,400 licensed naturopaths in 11 states compared
to over 3.4 million orthodox licensees in 50 states. Generally, only
approved treatments from licensed, credentialled practitioners are
insurable. This, in effect, neatly creates a special kind of money that
can only be spent within the orthodox medical and drug industry. No other
industry in the world has been able to manage the politics of convincing
people to accept so large a part of their pay in a form that often does
not allow them to spend it as they see fit.

The financial and political influence of this medical community completely
controls virtually every diabetes publication in the country. Many
diabetes publications are subsidised by ads for diabetes supplies. No
diabetes editor is going to allow the truth to be printed in his magazine.
This is why the diabetic only pays about one-quarter to one-third of the
cost of printing the magazine he depends upon for accurate information.
The rest is subsidised by diabetes manufacturers with a vested commercial
interest in preventing diabetics from curing their diabetes. When looking
for a magazine that tells the truth about diabetes, look first to see if
it is full of ads for diabetes supplies.

And then there are the various associations that solicit annual donations
to find a cure for their proprietary disease. Every year they promise that
a cure is just around the corner—just send more money! Some of these
very same associations have been clearly implicated in providing advice
that promotes the progress of diabetes in their trusting supporters. For
example, for years they heavily promoted exchange diets,which are in fact scientifically worthless—as anyone who has ever
tried to use them quickly finds out. They ridiculed the use of glycemic
tables, which are actually very helpful to the diabetic. They promoted the
use of margarine as heart healthy, long after it was well understood that margarine
causes diabetes and promotes heart failure.

If people ever wake up to the cure for diabetes that has been suppressed
for 40 years, these associations will soon be out of business. But until
then, they nonetheless continue to need our support. For 40 years, medical
research has consistently shown with increasing clarity that diabetes is a
degenerative disease directly caused by an
engineered food supply that is focused on profit instead of health.
Although the diligent can readily glean this information from a wealth of
medical research literature, it is generally otherwise unavailable.
Certainly this information has been, and remains, largely unavailable in
the medical schools that train our retail doctors.

Prominent among the causative agents in our modern diabetes epidemic are
the engineered fats and oils that are sold in today's supermarkets.The
first step to curing diabetes is to stop believing the lie that the
disease is incurable.

Diabetes
History

In 1922, three Canadian Nobel Prize winners, Banting, Best and Macleod,
were successful in saving the life of a fourteen-year-old diabetic girl in
Toronto General Hospital with injectable insulin. Eli Lilly was licensed
to manufacture this new wonder drug, and the medical community basked in
the glory of a job well done.

It wasn't until 1933 that rumours about a new rogue form of diabetes
surfaced. This was in a paper presented by Joslyn, Dublin and Marks and
printed in the American Journal of Medical Sciences. This paper,
"Studies on Diabetes Mellitus", discussed the emergence of a major epidemic of a disease
which looked very much like the diabetes of the early 1920s, only it did
not respond to the wonder drug, insulin. Even worse, sometimes
insulin treatment killed the patient.

This new disease became known as "insulin-resistant diabetes"
because it had the elevated blood sugar symptom of diabetes but responded
poorly to insulin therapy. Many physicians had considerable success in
treating this disease through diet. A great deal was learned about the
relationship between diet and diabetes in the 1930s and 1940s.

Diabetes, which had a per-capita incidence of 0.0028% at the turn of the
century, had by 1933 zoomed 1,000% in the United States to become a
disease seen by many doctors.This disease, under a variety of aliases, was
destined to go on to wreck the health of
over half the American population and incapacitate almost
20% by the 1990s.

In 1950, the medical community became able to perform serum
insulin assays. These assays quickly revealed that
this new disease wasn't classic diabetes; it was characterised by
sufficient, often excessive, blood insulin levels. The problem was that
the insulin was ineffective; it did not reduce blood sugar. But since the
disease had been known as diabetes for almost 20 years, it was renamed
Type II diabetes. This was to distinguish it from the earlier Type I
diabetes, caused by insufficient insulin production by the pancreas. Had
the dietary insights of the previous 20 years dominated the medical scene
from this point and into the late 1960s, diabetes would have become widely
recognised as curable instead of merely treatable. Instead, in 1950, a
search was launched for another wonder drug to deal with the Type II
diabetes problem.

Cure
versus Treatment

This new, ideal, wonder drug would be effective, like insulin, in
remitting obvious adverse symptoms of the disease but not effective in
curing the underlying disease. Thus it would be needed continually for the
remaining life of the patient. It would have to be patentable; that is, it
could not be a natural medication because these are non-patentable. Like
insulin, it would have to be highly profitable to manufacture and
distribute. Mandatory government approvals would be required to stimulate
physicians to prescribe it as a prescription drug. Testing required for
these approvals would have to be enormously expensive to prevent other,
unapproved, medications from becoming competitive.

This is the origin of the classic medical protocol of "treating the
symptoms". By doing this, both the drug company and the doctor could
prosper in business, and the patient, while not being cured of his
disease, was sometimes temporarily relieved
of some of his symptoms.

Additionally, natural medications that actually cured disease would have
to be suppressed. The more effective they were, the more they would need
to be suppressed and their proponents jailed as quacks. After all, it
wouldn't do to have some cheap, effective, natural medication cure disease
in a capital-intensive monopoly market specifically designed to treat
symptoms without curing disease. Often the natural substance really did
cure disease. This is why the force of law has been and is being used to
drive the natural, often superior, medicines from the marketplace, to
remove the "cure" word from the medical vocabulary and to
undermine totally the very concept of a free marketplace in the medical
business.

Now it is clear why the "cure" word is so vigorously suppressed
by law. The FDA has extensive Orwellian regulations that prohibit the use
of the "cure" word to describe any competing medicine or natural
substance. It is precisely because many natural substances do actually
both cure and prevent disease that this word has become so frightening to
the drug and orthodox medical community.

The
Commercial Value of Symptoms

After the drug development policy was redesigned to focus on ameliorating
symptoms rather than curing disease, it became necessary to reinvent the
way drugs were marketed. This was done in 1949 in the midst of a major
epidemic of insulin-resistant diabetes.

So, in 1949, the US medical community reclassified the symptoms of
diabetes along with many other disease symptoms into diseases in their own
right. With this reclassification as the new basis for diagnosis,
competing medical speciality groups quickly seized upon related groups of
symptoms as their own proprietary symptoms set.

Thus the heart specialist, endocrinologist, allergist, kidney specialist
and many others started to treat the symptoms for which they felt
responsible. As the underlying cause of the disease was widely ignored,
all focus on actually curing anything was completely lost.Heart failure, for example, which had previously been understood
often to be but a symptom of diabetes, now became a disease not directly
connected to diabetes. It became fashionable to think that diabetes
"increased cardiovascular risk". The causal role of a failed
blood-sugar control system in heart failure became obscured.

Consistent with the new medical paradigm, none of the treatments offered
by the heart specialist actually cures, or is even intended to cure, their
proprietary disease. For example, the
three-year survival rate for bypass surgery is almost exactly the same as
if no surgery was undertaken.

Today, over half of the people in America suffer from one or more symptoms
of this disease. In its beginnings, it became well known to physicians as
Type II diabetes, insulin-resistant diabetes, insulin resistance,
adult-onset diabetes or, more rarely, hyperinsulinaemia. According to the
American Heart Association, almost 50% of Americans suffer from one or
more symptoms of this disease. One third of
the US population is morbidly obese; half
of the population is overweight. Type II diabetes, also
called adult-onset diabetes, now appears routinely in six-year-old
children.

Many degenerative diseases can be traced to a massive failure of the
endocrine system. This was well known to the physicians of the 1930s as
insulin-resistant diabetes. This basic underlying disorder is known to be
a derangement of the blood-sugar control system by
badly engineered fats and oils. It is exacerbated and
complicated by the widespread lack of other essential nutrition that the
body needs to cope with the metabolic consequences of these poisons.All fats and oils are not equal. Some are healthy and beneficial; many,
commonly available in the supermarket, are poisonous. The
health distinction is not between saturated and unsaturated, as the fats
and oils industry would have us believe. Many saturated oils and fats are
highly beneficial; many unsaturated oils are
highly poisonous. The important
health distinction is between natural and engineered.

There exists great dishonesty in advertising in the fats and oils
industry. It is aimed at creating a market for cheap junk oils such as soy,
cottonseed and rapeseed oils.With
an informed and aware public, these oils would have no market at all, and
the USA—indeed, the world—would have far fewer cases of diabetes.

Epidemiological Lifestyle Link

As early as 1901, efforts had been made to manufacture and sell food
products by the use of automated factory machinery because of the immense
profits that were possible. Most of the early efforts failed because
people were inherently suspicious of food that wasn't farm fresh and
because the technology was poor. As long as people were prosperous,
suspicious food products made little headway. Crisco,
the artificial shortening, was once given away free in 21⁄2 lb cans
in an unsuccessful effort to influence American housewives to trust and
buy the product in preference to lard.

Margarine
was introduced and was bitterly opposed by the dairy states in the USA.
With the advent of the Depression of the 1930s, margarine, Crisco and a
host of other refined and hydrogenated products began to make significant
penetration into the food markets of America. Support for dairy opposition
to margarine faded during World War II because there wasn't enough butter
for the needs of both the civilian population and the military. At this point, the dairy industry, having lost much support,
simply accepted a diluted market share and concentrated on supplying the
military.

Flax
oils and fish oils, which were common in the stores
and considered dietary staples before the American population became
diseased, have disappeared from the shelf. The last supplier of flax oil
to the major distribution chains was Archer Daniels Midland, and it
stopped producing and supplying the product in 1950.

More recently, one of the most important of the remaining, genuinely
beneficial, fats was subjected to a massive media disinformation campaign
that portrayed it as a saturated fat that causes heart failure. As a
result, it has virtually disappeared from the supermarket shelves. Thus
was coconut
oilremoved from the food chain and replaced with soy
oil, cottonseed
oiland rapeseed
oil. Our parents and grandparents would never have
swapped a fine, healthy oil like coconut oil for these cheap, junk oils.
It was shortly after this successful media blitz that the US populace lost
its war on fat. For many years, coconut oil had been our most effective
dietary weight-control agent.

The history of the engineered adulteration of our once-clean food supply
exactly parallels the rise of the epidemic of diabetes and
hyperinsulinaemia now sweeping the United States as well as much of the
rest of the world.The
second step to a cure for this disease epidemic is to stop believing the
lie that our food supply is safe and nutritious.

The
Nature of the Disease

Diabetes is classically diagnosed as a failure of the body to metabolise
carbohydrates properly. Its defining symptom is a high blood-glucose
level. Type I diabetes results from insufficient insulin production by the
pancreas. Type II diabetes results from ineffective insulin. In both
types, the blood-glucose level remains elevated. Neither insufficient
insulin nor ineffective insulin can limit post-prandial (after-eating)
blood sugar to the normal range. In established cases of Type II diabetes,
these elevated blood sugar levels are often preceded and accompanied by
chronically elevated insulin levels and by serious distortions of other
endocrine hormonal markers.

The ineffective insulin is no different from effective insulin. Its
ineffectiveness lies in the failure of the cell population to respond to
it. It is not the result of any biochemical defect in the insulin itself.
Therefore, it is appropriate to note that this is a disease that affects
almost every cell in the 70 trillion or so cells of the body. All of these
cells are dependent upon the food that we eat for the raw materials they
need for self repair and maintenance.

The classification of diabetes as a failure to metabolise carbohydrates is
a traditional classification that originated in the early 19th century
when little was known about metabolic diseases or processes.Today, with our increased knowledge of these processes, it would
appear quite appropriate to define Type II diabetes more fundamentally as
a failure of the body to metabolise fats and oils properly. This failure
results in a loss of effectiveness of insulin and in the consequent
failure to metabolise carbohydrates. Unfortunately, much medical insight
into this matter, except at the research level, remains hampered by its
19th-century legacy.

Thus Type II diabetes and its early hyperinsulinaemic symptoms are
whole-body symptoms of this basic cellular failure to metabolise glucose
properly. Each cell of the body, for reasons which are becoming clearer,
finds itself unable to transport glucose from the bloodstream to its
interior. The glucose then remains in the bloodstream, or is stored as
body fat or as glycogen, or is otherwise disposed of in urine.
It appears that when insulin binds to a cell membrane receptor, it
initiates a complex cascade of biochemical reactions inside the cell. This
causes a class of glucose transporters known as GLUT4 molecules to leave
their parking area inside the cell and travel to the inside surface of the
plasma cell membrane.

When in the membrane, they migrate to special areas of the membrane called
caveolae areas. There, by another series of biochemical reactions, they
identify and hook up with glucose molecules and transport them into the
interior of the cell by a process called endocytosis. Within the cell's
interior, this glucose is then burned as fuel by the mitochondria to
produce energy to power cellular activity. Thus these GLUT4 transporters
lower glucose in the bloodstream by transporting it out of the bloodstream
into all the cells of the body.

Many of the molecules involved in these glucose- and insulin-mediated
pathways are lipids; that is, they are fatty acids. A healthy plasma cell
membrane, now known to be an active player in the glucose scenario,
contains a complement of cis-type w=3 unsaturated fatty acids. This makes
the membrane relatively fluid and slippery. When these cis- fatty acids
are chronically unavailable because of our diet, trans- fatty acids and
short- and medium-chain saturated fatty acids are substituted in the cell
membrane. These substitutions make the cellular membrane stiffer and more
sticky, and inhibit the glucose transport mechanism.

Thus, in the absence of sufficient cis
omega 3 fatty acidsin our diet, these fatty acid
substitutions take place, the mobility of the GLUT4 transporters is
diminished, the interior biochemistry of the cell is changed and glucose
remains elevated in the bloodstream.Elsewhere
in the body, the pancreas secretes excess insulin, the liver manufactures
fat from the excess sugar, the adipose cells store excess fat, the body
goes into a high urinary mode, insufficient cellular energy is available
for bodily activity and the entire endocrine system becomes distorted.
Eventually, pancreatic failure occurs, body weight plummets and a diabetic
crisis is precipitated.

Although there remains much work to be done to elucidate fully all of the
steps in all of these pathways, this clearly marks the beginning of a
biochemical explanation for the known epidemiological relationship between
cheap, engineered dietary fats and oils and the onset of Type II diabetes.

Orthodox
Medical Treatment

After the diagnosis of diabetes, modern orthodox medical treatment
consists of either oral hypoglycaemic agents or insulin.

•
Oral hypoglycaemic agents

In 1955, oral
hypoglycaemic drugswere introduced. Currently
available oral hypoglycaemic agents fall into five classifications
according to their biophysical mode of action. These classes are:
biguanides; glucosidase inhibitors; meglitinides; sulphonylureas; and
thiazolidinediones.The biguanides
lower blood sugar in three ways. They inhibit the normal release by the
liver of its glucose stores, they interfere with intestinal absorption of
glucose from ingested carbohydrates, and they are said to increase
peripheral uptake of glucose.

The glucosidase inhibitors are designed to inhibit the amylase enzymes
produced by the pancreas and which are essential to the digestion of
carbohydrates. The theory is that if the digestion of carbohydrates is
inhibited, the blood sugar level cannot be elevated.The meglitinides are designed to stimulate the pancreas to produce
insulin in a patient that likely already has an elevated level of insulin
in their bloodstream. Only rarely does the doctor even measure the insulin
level. Indeed, these drugs are frequently prescribed without any knowledge
of the pre-existing insulin level. The fact that an elevated insulin level
is almost as damaging as an elevated glucose level is widely ignored.

The sulphonylureas are another pancreatic stimulant class designed to
stimulate the production of insulin. Serum insulin determinations are
rarely made by the doctor before he prescribes these drugs. They are often
prescribed for Type II diabetics, many of whom already have elevated
ineffective insulin. These drugs are notorious for causing hypoglycaemia
as a side effect.

The thiazolidinediones are famous for causing liver cancer. One of them, Rezulin,
was approved in the USA through devious political infighting, but failed
to get approval in the UK because it was known to cause liver cancer. The
doctor who had responsibility to approve it at the FDA refused to do so.
It was only after he was replaced by a more compliant official that Rezulin
gained approval by the FDA. It went on to kill well over 100 diabetes
patients and cripple many others before the fight to get it off the market
was finally won. Rezulin
was designed to stimulate the uptake of glucose from the bloodstream by
the peripheral cells and to inhibit the normal secretion of glucose by the
liver. The politics of why this drug ever came onto market, and then
remained in the market for such an unexplainable length of time with
regulatory agency approval, is not clear.As of April 2000, lawsuits commenced to clarify this situation.

•
Insulin

Today, insulin is prescribed for both the Type I and Type
II diabetics. Injectable insulin substitutes for the insulin that the body
no longer produces. Of course, this treatment, while necessary for
preserving the life of the Type I diabetic, is highly questionable when
applied to the Type II diabetic.It
is important to note that neither insulin nor any of these oral
hypoglycaemic agents exerts any curative action whatsoever on any type of
diabetes. None of these medical strategies is designed to normalise the
cellular uptake of glucose by the cells that need it to power their
activity.

The prognosis with this orthodox treatment is increasing disability and
early death from heart or kidney failure or the failure of some other
vital organ.

Alternative
Medical Treatment

The third step to a cure for this disease is to become informed and to
apply an alternative methodology that is soundly based upon good science.Effective alternative treatment that directly leads to a cure is
available today for some Type I and for many Type II diabetics. About 5%
of the diabetic population suffers from Type I diabetes; about 95% has
Type II diabetes.Gestational
diabetes is simply ordinary diabetes contracted by a woman who is
pregnant.

For the Type I diabetic, an alternative methodology for the treatment of
Type I diabetes is now available. It was developed in modern hospitals in
Madras, India, and subjected to rigorous double-blind studies to prove its
efficacy. It operates to restore normal pancreatic beta cell function so
that the pancreas can again produce insulin as it should. This approach
apparently was capable of curing Type I diabetes in over 60% of the
patients on whom it was tested. The major complication lies in whether the
antigens that originally led to the autoimmune destruction of these beta
cells have disappeared from or remain in the body. If they remain, a cure
is less likely; if they have disappeared, the cure is more likely. For
reasons already discussed, this methodology is not likely to appear in the
United States any time soon, and certainly not in the American orthodox
medical community.

The goal of any effective alternative program is to repair and restore the
body's own blood-sugar control mechanism. It is the malfunctioning of this
mechanism that, over time, directly causes all of the many debilitating
symptoms that make orthodox treatment so financially rewarding for the
diabetes industry. For Type II diabetes, the steps in the program are:

•Repair the faulty blood sugar control system. This is done simply
by substituting clean, healthy, beneficial fats and oils in the diet for
the pristine-looking but toxic trans-isomer mix found in attractive
plastic containers on supermarket shelves. Consume only flax oil, fish oil
and occasionally cod liver oil until blood sugar starts to stabilise. Then
add back healthy oils such as butter, coconut oil, olive oil and clean
animal fat. Read labels; refuse to consume cheap junk oils when they
appear in processed food or on restaurant menus. Diabetics are chronically
short of minerals; they need to add a good-quality, broad-spectrum mineral
supplement to the diet.

•
Control blood sugar manually during the recovery cycle.
Under medical supervision, gradually discontinue all oral hypoglycaemic
agents along with any additional drugs given to counteract their side
effects. Develop natural blood-sugar control by the use of glycaemic
tables, by consuming frequent small meals (including fibre-rich foods),
by regular post-prandial exercise, and by the complete avoidance of all
sugars along with the judicious use of only non-toxic sweeteners.Avoid alcohol until blood sugar
stabilises in the normal range. Keep score by using a
pinprick-type glucose meter. Keep track of everything you do with a
medical diary.

•
Restore a proper balance of healthy fats and oils when the
blood sugar controller again works. Permanently remove from the diet all
cheap, toxic, junk fats and oils as well
as the processed and restaurant foods that contain them.
When the blood sugar controller again starts to work correctly, gradually
introduce additional healthy foods to the diet. Test the effect of these
added foods by monitoring blood sugar levels with the pinprick-type blood
sugar monitor. Be sure to include the results of these tests in your diary
also.

•
Continue the program until normal insulin values are also
restored after blood sugar levels begin to stabilise in the normal region.
Once blood sugar levels fall into the normal range, the pancreas will
gradually stop overproducing insulin. This process will typically take a
little longer and can be tested by having your physician send a sample of
your blood to a lab for a serum insulin determination. A good idea is to
wait a couple of months after blood sugar control is restored and then
have your physician check your insulin level. It's nice to have blood
sugar in the normal range; it's even nicer to have this accomplished
without excess insulin in the bloodstream.

•
Separately repair the collateral damage done by the disease. Vascular
problems caused by a chronically elevated glucose level will normally
reverse themselves without conscious effort. The effects of retinopathy
and of peripheral neuropathy, for example, will usually self repair.
However, when the fine capillaries in the basement membranes of the
kidneys begin to leak due to chronic high blood glucose, the kidneys
compensate by laying down scar tissue to prevent the leakage. This scar
tissue remains even after the diabetes is cured, and is the reason why the
kidney damage is not believed to self repair.

A word of warning…
When retinopathy
develops, there may be a temptation to have the damage repaired by laser
surgery. This laser technique stops the retinal bleeding by creating scar
tissue where the leaks have developed. This scar tissue will prevent
normal healing of the fine capillaries in the eye when the diabetes is
reversed. By reversing the diabetes instead of opting for laser surgery,
there is an excellent chance that the eye will heal completely. However,
if laser surgery is done, this healing will always be complicated by the
scar tissue left by the laser.The
arterial and vascular damage done by years of elevated sugar and insulin
and by the proliferation of systemic candida will slowly reverse due to
improved diet. However, it takes many years to clean out the arteries by
this form of oral chelation. Arterial damage can be reversed much more
quickly by using intravenous chelation therapy. What would normally take
many years through diet alone can often be done in six months with
intravenous therapy. This is reputed to be effective over 80% of the time.
For obvious reasons, don't expect your doctor to approve of this,
particularly if he's a heart specialist.

Recovery
Time

The prognosis is usually swift recovery from the disease and restoration
of normal health and energy levels in a few months to a year or more. The
length of time that it takes to effect a cure depends upon how long the
disease was allowed to develop. For those who work quickly to reverse the
disease after early discovery, the time is usually a few months or less.
For those who have had the disease for many years, this recovery time may
lengthen to a year or more. Thus, there is good reason to get busy
reversing this disease as soon as it becomes clearly identified.

By the time you get to this point in this article, and if we've done a
good job of explaining our diabetes epidemic, you should know what causes
it, what orthodox medical treatment is all about, and why diabetes has
become a national and international disgrace. Of even greater importance,
you have become acquainted with a self-help program that has demonstrated
great potential to actually cure this disease. ∞

About the
Author:

Thomas Smith is a reluctant medical investigator, having been forced into
curing his own diabetes because it was obvious that his doctor would not
or could not cure it. He has published the results of his successful
diabetes investigation in his self-help manual, Insulin: Our Silent
Killer, written for the layperson but also widely valued by the medical
practitioner. This manual details the steps required to reverse Type II
diabetes and references the work being done with Type I diabetes. The book
may be purchased from the author at PO Box 7685, Loveland, Colorado 80537,
USA (North American residents send $US25.00; overseas residents should
contact the author for payment and shipping instructions).
Thomas Smith has also posted a great deal of useful information about
diabetes on his website, http://www.Healingmatters.
com. He can be contacted by telephone at +1 (970) 669 9176 and by email at
valley@healingmatters.com.

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Diabetes (diabetes mellitus)
is a chronic, degenerative disease caused by insulin deficiencies due to
the body being incapable of producing normal insulin levels, or insulin
resistance, a condition in which the cells of the body resist insulin's
attempts at regulating blood sugar levels. Insulin is a hormone produced
by the pancreas to metabolize glucose, a form of sugar that is one of
the primary sources of our cells energy supply. Whether diabetes is
caused by insulin resistance or a lack of insulin, the end result is
equally as adverse. The result is the body can't transport enough
glucose from the bloodstream into the cells, especially after meals,
when blood sugar levels rise as a natural consequence of digestion.

Normally, blood sugar levels in the body
are maintained by the bodies self regulating mechanisms, known as
homeostasis. A rise in blood glucose after eating is supposed to
stimulate production of the hormone insulin in the pancreas, and the
insulin released into the bloodstream should keep blood sugar levels
within a safe and usable range. But when the insulin producing cells of
the pancreas are not functioning normally, glucose levels remain high.
If this situation becomes chronic, the stage is set for the
manifestation of diabetes.

Diabetes affects tens of
millions of Americans, and it is estimated that a third of all people who
have diabetes are unaware that they even have it. Twenty three million
people or eight percent of the population are documented as having
diabetes. Diabetes causes nearly ten percent of all U.S. deaths for people
25 and older. It is also the main cause of new cases of blindness among
adults 20 to 74 years old, and it is the leading cause of end-stage renal
(kidney) disease. In addition, diabetes is the primary reason for
amputations of the limb, and is a leading cause of heart disease.

Types of Diabetes

Type 1 or insulin
dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) occurs when the pancreas fails
to make enough insulin. It usually occurs in childhood or adolescence but
can develop at any age. These patients need insulin everyday.

Type 2 or non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus occurs
when body cells become resistant to insulin. This is more common among
adults, especially those who are overweight and over age 40. These people
are able to control their blood sugar levels through weight control,
regular exercise and a well balanced diet. Some people require oral
medications or insulin injections to lower blood sugar.

Symptoms of Diabetes

Increased thirst, increased
urination, and increased appetite are the initial symptoms of diabetes. In
type 1 diabetes weight loss is prominent, and in type 2 obesity is common.
Other possible symptoms are blurred vision, skin irritation or infection,
weakness or loss of strength, and decreased healing capacity. If diabetes
is not diagnosed at the right time, symptoms like fluid and electrolyte
imbalance, acidosis, and even coma can develop.

Diabetes can be a major factor
in the result of so many health problems, and is also capable of causing
death. Fortunately it is possible to be overcome, and can be completely
eliminated through holistic treatments, the first and foremost being by
proper diet. Use of the elemental miracle has been seen to produce
unbelievably rapid responses in regard to curing diabetes. In the book The
Elemental Miracle there are several case histories of persons who
were extremely diabetic, who became cured of diabetes just by activating
and ingesting this one mineral, without changing anything else about their
life. Several had type one diabetes all of their lives, yet were able to
go off their insulin in a less than a week. This was not some fanatical or
emotional response on their part, as blood test and their doctors
confirmed it was no longer necessary. Of course there are several other
very beneficial natural remedies for diabetes which are briefly covered
here. I can't imagine why anyone would not want to take advantage of
several of them simultaneously, as they are totally safe when followed
according to the standard recommendations.

Natural
Cures For Diabetes(don't rely on any one remedy alone)

I received this natural cure
for diabetes from an Ayurvedic doctor who swears that anyone who follows
it will be permanently cured of diabetes within two months. I know it
sounds too good to be true, but it does deserve serious consideration, as
she is a respected member in her field.

Take these ingredients and
crush and mix them up equally into a powder. Put into capsules, and take
enough to equal two grams of the powder, once a day.

Apple
Cider Vinegar And Cinnamon: A very effective natural remedy for
diabetes is to use apple cider vinegar and cinnamon. Take two tablespoons
of raw unfiltered organic apple cider vinegar, mixed with four to six
ounces of liquid and one teaspoon of cinnamon. (why not use green tea?)I
take apple cider vinegar at least twice a day with a teaspoon of baking
soda. The baking soda keeps the vinegar from hurting my teeth, and it's
great for raising the bodies alkalinity. It's also fun to watch the
vinegar fizz up. Either apple cider vinegar or cinnamon by themselves, are
both reputed to be very effective natural cures for diabetes, but
together? Well all I can say is, welcome to the wonderful world of
holistic health and healing.

Green
Beans: Green beans are traditionally known to lower blood sugar
levels in even those with type 1 diabetes. Eat them fresh and often.

Fenugreek:
The seeds of fenugreek have been found effective in the treatment of
diabetes. Fenugreek seeds, when given in varying doses daily, diminish
reactive hyperglycaemia in diabetic patients. Levels of glucose, serum
cholesterol, and triglycerides are significantly reduced in diabetes
patients after consuming fenugreek seeds. Soak 1 teaspoon of fenugreek
seeds in 1 cup of water at night. Drink the water in the morning on an
empty stomach and eat the seeds. Very good for diabetes because it works
like insulin.

Fresh
Ginger Juice: Drinking fresh ginger juice has worked wonders for
persons with diabetes. You have to be careful not to drink too much as it
can lower your blood sugar levels too severely. Results have been reported
to be all but instantaneous. Juice a very small amount, and mix with
water.

Yellow Dock Tea: How
be it little known, yellow dock tea works wonders for diabetics. Steady
use has been reported to eliminate even severe diabetic symptoms. (not
to be taken by pregnant women or those with liver or kidney disease)

Gymnema
Sylvestre:A very well known Ayurvedic medicine.
Gymnema sylvestre is well documented to be a powerful natural remedy for
diabetes.

Banaba:
Scientific name Lagerstoemia Speciosa, banaba extract is commonly
known as “plant insulin” as well as “botanical insulin.” It is
usually taken as a tea or in extract form. It is a particularly well known
cure for diabetes in the Philippines as well as in Japan. It is mainly
used in the U.S. as a safe herb for weight control.

Milk Thistle, (silymarin): The herbal
medicine extracted from seeds of the Milk Thistle, Silybum marianum (silymarin)
is known to have antioxidant properties. Research shows that this extract
can help people significantly lower the amount of sugar bound to
haemoglobin in blood, as well as reducing fasting blood sugar levels.
Silymarin contains a number of active constituents called flavolignans
which are also used to help protect the liver from poisoning.

Zinc:
is essential for the pancreas to produce insulin and makes insulin work
effectively. It also helps in fortifying the insulin receptor cells. When
zinc is low, the pancreas does not create sufficient insulin, thus high
glucose levels

Ginko
Biloba: An extremely effective herb used in Traditional Chinese
Medicine and derived from one of the oldest trees on earth. Studies
indicate that ginkgo biloba has a beneficial effect on peripheral and
cerebral circulation, and can therefore help to prevent the tissue damage
and poor circulation associated with diabetes. It is also suggested that
ginkgo biloba can increase blood flow to the optic fibers of the eyes, and
therefore help to treat diabetes related eye disease.

Bitter
Melon or Bitter Gourd: A very well known Ayurvedic herb, provides
perhaps the most reliable immediate relief for diabetics. It has been
established that bitter gourd contains a hypoglycaemic or insulin like
principle, designated as plantinsulin, which has been found valuable in
lowering the blood and urine sugar levels. It should, therefore, be
included liberally in the diet of the diabetic. For best results, the
diabetic should take the juice of about four or five bitter gourds every
morning on an empty stomach. The seeds can be added to food in a powdered
form. Diabetics can also use bitter gourd in the form of a decoction by
boiling the pieces in water, or in the form of dry powder. It is readily
available fresh at most Asian or Indian markets, or as a powder from
health food stores or Ayurvedic medicine websites.

Indian
Gooseberry: with its high vitamin C content, is considered
valuable in diabetes. A tablespoon of its juice, mixed with a cup of
bitter gourd juice, taken daily for two months, will stimulate the islets
of Langerhans, that is, the isolated group of cells that secrete the
hormone insulin in the pancreas. This mixture reduces the blood sugar in
diabetes

Parslane:
The seeds of parslane are useful in diabetes. A teaspoon of the
seeds should be taken every day with half a cup of water . They increase
the body's own insulin and help in curing diabetes.

Flaxseed
Oil: Take two tablespoons of high quality flaxseed oil daily. You
will notice within a few weeks that your blood sugar levels will drop. I
highly suggest you read Thomas Smith's book, "Insulin our Silent
Killer". This book gives very detailed instructions for curing
diabetes, as he himself was diagnosed with the disease, and cured himself.
Read up on the "bad" oils, and stop using them as they cause
high blood sugar. In this regard I would also like to mention the Budwig
diet. Click here and read about it.

The Budwig diet is phenomenal
at curing all types of diseases and has been very well documented at doing
so.

Sage
Tea: is a very old and well known herb to help lower and maintain
a stable blood sugar level by diabetics. Simply use tea bags or steep the
leaves.

Chromium:
is an excellent supplement to take for helping the body use sugar
more efficiently. Chromium helps cells to respond better to naturally
producing insulin. Some rich sources of chromium are seeds and whole
grains. Also mushrooms.

R-Lipoic
Acid: helps to reduce the bodies blood sugars. It allows the
cells to utilize energy more efficiently which is very beneficial for
diabetics, and has been seen to lower their blood sugar count by more than
30, single handedly.

Noni
Juice: is very helpful for diabetes and many former diabetics
have credited it for curing their diabetes.

Marine
Phytoplankton: promotes and maintains optimum health by boosting
and supporting all systems within the body. When the body is missing
critical components, it is unable to maintain the balance of these
systems, and malfunctions producing diseases such as diabetes.
Phytoplankton contains a unique combination of life sustaining nutrients
including; Omega 3 essential fatty acids (EPA and DHA), protein,
chlorophyll, vitamins, minerals and trace elements. Green food supplements
such as blue green algae, barley and wheat grass, alfalfa, etc. have also
been shown to be very helpful in healing all manner of disease. Marine
phytoplankton leads the pack and is well worth adopting into your diabetes
conquering arsenal.

Curing
Diabetes Through Diet: I'm going to be brutally honest in regard
to diabetes and diet. Of course as I've already mentioned the elemental
miracle has been seen to miraculously reverse even the most severe and
chronic diabetes, yet why not heal your diabetes through diet, and make
sure your body is re-energized as well? For life! Diet is so important and
for certain diabetes 2 is most definitely, one hundred percent caused, and
maintained by improper diet and lifestyle. I could lay out the do's and do
not's of diabetes and diet, but why not make a major life
altering change? Besides I'm sure you've already heard them all, but what
I'm about to recommend is something considerably different. Why fool
around with such a serious disease, when it can be so easily and rapidly
cured? Therefore I've decided it best to refer you to this wonderful
website on diabetes & diet, hosted by two world class health
authorities. If you stay focused and follow their program, you can forget
about diabetes forever! Good luck and best wishes.

In closing I would just like
to mention that I don't see why anyone couldn't try several of these
remedies at the same time. Why not all of them? Use your head, devise a
program and stay with it. Be a little patient and don't over do it. And be
sure to stick to your diet! These things become easier with time. The more
you do, the faster the results. The more results you receive, the more
enthusiastic you'll become. This temporary health crisis your
experiencing, might very well prove to become a springboard into a whole
new life, so be very optimistic and stay positive. Natural cures for all
diseases are very reliable and effective. I want to commend you for at
least making the effort, and for taking charge of your own health. If you
think there is anything I might be able to do in assisting you, don't
hesitate to let me know. Here's wishing you a speedy recovery from
diabetes, and all of your health concerns.

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